I've been reading a lot of these forums and it seems to me that the general quality of Honda Civics has been dropping slightly (around the year 01 and again around 05/06). I could be wrong too.. but I want to find out what everyone's general impression of Honda Civic Quality is given year models.

So, for example, I'm looking for your rating from 1 to 10... 1 being very unreliable, 3 below average reliability, 5 average reliability, 7 above average, 10 amazing reliability (very reliable) for your civic, civics you've heard of and civics you've owned in the past.

I'll start.
1999 Civic: 7 (so far).

 

1993 Civic: 9 (the only time is craps on me is when I modify it against its will. ie: lowering spring w/o upgrading shocks)

 

92 civic id give it a 6.5, had it for 9 months and spent almost 2g on repairs............ but hey shes been treating me good so far

 

ive had a 93 civic coupe no problems. a 92 hatch with over 400,000 miles on the body i had a motor put in it i still have it no problems now. and ive had a 2002 civic si had it till it got 23,000 miles no problem with it

 

97 Civic EX : 9 (only took a crap when other people messed with it or did crappy repairs on it...I'm still sorting all of that out...)

 

1999 DX Coupe: 9

I dont think i've ever had to bring it in to a shop other than when i hit my deer. I've gotten oil changes pretty regularely and it's all set. Replaced the plugs/wires once since i've had it (need to do it again), but other than these normal maintence things it hasnt given me one problem. Had to reground the battery last winter though, it was having trouble starting, but that was like a $5 10 minute job. I love my Civ

 

What's involved in changing plugs and wires? What do you mean by changing the wires? How often does that have to be done?

thx

 

89crx si9 distributor died out of nowhere but that was the only problem

91 crx dx 10 never had a major problem before or after engine swap

96 Integra 7 had some electrical problems but never broke down on me

90 Civic HB with 1.8Lswap 7 some minor swap related issues but no major mechanial problems

01 Civic 10 did all the general matenence and didnt have any problems for the 2 years i wasresponsible for it

 

spark plugs/spark plug wires. There a DIY for changing the spark plugs here on HCF, check the DIYsection. I was told it should be done every 6 months (i think) but its been way longer than that and i'm still running okay.

 

1997 dx: 9 only minor problem was a burnt o2 sensor, but fixed in a couple min. with a scanner and wrench.